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The History of the Stock Market: From Coffee Houses to Algorithms The stock market is often treated as a symbol of modern life: frantic screens, ringing bells, suited traders, pension funds, crashes, recoveries, and fortunes made or lost before lunch. But the idea behind it is much older and, in some ways, much simpler. At its heart, the stock market is a meeting place between ambition and capital. Someone has an enterprise. Someone else has money. The market is where they ag